[Django]-Logging users out of a Django site after N minutes of inactivity

Setting the session cookie age in the django session middleware just sets the expiry time in the set-cookie header passed back to the browser. It’s only browser compliance with the expiry time that enforces the “log out”.

Depending on your reasons for needing the idle log-out, you might not consider browser compliance with the expiry time good enough. In which case you’ll need to extend the session middleware to do so.

For example you might store an expiry time in your session engine which you update with requests. Depending on the nature of traffic to your site, you may wish to only write back to the session object once in X seconds to avoid excessive db writes.

On "settings.py", for session expiry time, set SESSION_COOKIE_AGE which is 1209600 seconds(2 weeks) by default and for inactive logout, set "True" to SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST which is "False" by default as shown below:

# "settings.py"

SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 180 # 3 minutes. "1209600(2 weeks)" by default 

SESSION_SAVE_EVERY_REQUEST = True # "False" by default

Try setting settings.SESSION_COOKIE_AGE to N * 60 seconds.

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/settings/#session-cookie-age

Try install django-auto-logout. you can control downtime

AUTO_LOGOUT = {‘IDLE_TIME’: 600} # logout after 10 minutes of downtime

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